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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1925
Page
4
A historic June heat wave, the worst since the weather bureau began, raises toll to 112 deaths as temperatures soar with low humidity. Over the last day, 44 more fatalities across the East and Middle West push the month’s June record higher, with 68 deaths reported earlier.
Report from Canton says troops hold the city and clashes with Canton forces continue. Foreigners leave Canton as two British and two American gunboats anchor on the river. Miss Frances Mandell of Detroit reports a reign of terror in the area near Hong Kong.
Foreign powers in a second note to the Chinese foreign office protest Shanghai disorders and demand urgent measures to protect people from renewed outbreaks and the release of all captives. Earlier notes protested Shanghai rioting. China answered by placing responsibility on the foreign police in Shanghay.
President Coolidge appoints William B. Mitchell of St. Paul Minnesota as solicitor general of the United States, succeeding resigned James Beck. The announcement comes from Washington on June 5 via United Press.
Austin June 5 Friends of Major Richard Coke Burleson United States Army announced they will ask the Texas A and M board of directors to appoint Burleson president in place of Bizzell Burleson a native Texan and graduate of A and M College also attended West Point.
Boston June 8 continued improvement is bulletined on the condition of Secretary of War Weeks this morning.
Washington reports Texas as the leading export state for 1924 surpassing New York with total Texas exports of $737,218,927 led by cotton shipments and mineral oils. New York followed at $781,593,502 with Pennsylvanian third. Texas rose especially in the last quarter to claim supremacy.
Washington reports three major aeronautical advances. Ford freight service expands private use grows, and seaplanes fight Canadian forest fires. Cabot notes regulatory, private demand, and potential Chicago to New Orleans passenger routes.
A heat wave and wind storms across the Middle West left Twenty One dead and nearly a score seriously injured. From Nebraska to Ohio the heat records were shattered and humidity gave way to violent thunderstorms. Sioux City was a storm center with injuries reported in Iowa and surrounding states.
The Southewestern Life Insurance Company will begin work immediately on a $60,000 annex to its Dallas building. The addition will front Main Street for 35 feet with a 100 foot depth.
In Troup Texas on a June day Fd Park’s poaey on a tomato field failed to protect it. A hail storm struck ten minutes after the policy took effect, damaging the crop. Three hours later Park secured insurance coverage.
Fort Worth on June 5. Henry Lee heads the police department, and Everett Read the secretary arrested Frank Gandy a Black porter charged with theft. Read said Gandy claimed he borrowed the item and feared retaliation from Black people.
A large crowd gathered in Dodd City last night for the George W. Truett meeting with no fewer than 100 people from Bonham and nearby areas attending the event.
A reflective quote notes that poverty persists because limited satisfactions create a cycle. It argues that without satisfying needs, people remain poor, implying social and economic constraints sustain deprivation.
Forty women enroll in a Boston University program that argues marriage develops many problems and can be analyzed and solved in advance.
In Rio de Janeiro a local newspaper runs a beauty contest with odd prizes from sponsors. Gifts include a repeating rifle a bicycle a gas stove an ice chest a typewriter fifty safety razor blades a lottery ticket and twenty five love story collections. The motive remains unclear though some speculate about bobbed hair and shaving habits.
Several American missionary institutions in China sided with the student revolt and against U S diplomatic officials and foreign police. The American Legation at Pekin is embarrassed and has protested the missionaries for their gravely inexpedient attitude at this time.
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